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Re:Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating... by aidanf on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @11:44AM (#866919)
I assumed from watching the video that the code it generates is objective-j or cappuccino code, and that it would run in the browser. Is this correct?
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Re:Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating... by boucher on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @01:26PM (#867149)
The idea is that you'll be able to target the browser, and native desktop platforms. It will all be javascript based.
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Re:Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating... by aidanf on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @12:25PM (#867001)
From the questions part of the video it appears that all the code that it generates is javascript and html.
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Re:Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating... by tlrobinson on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @07:32PM (#867907)
Sort of. Cappuccino and Atlas run in normal web browsers, no browser plugins, using JavaScript to build up and manipulate the DOM. But there is almost no HTML (or CSS) involved, and Atlas does not generate much code at all.

The interface files that Atlas creates are essentially freeze-dried archives of the interface objects. IMHO this is a better solution than code generators.

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